Lecture 6 - ← ← Evil • Misery o Physical Evil –...

Lecture 616/09/2010 09:11:00←In part 10, Philo is edging on Cleanthes about how miserable and depressed the world/humans are.←←Towards the end, Philo discusses “the problem of evil”•Existence of evil affects how we depict GodoIf God is Omnipotent-able to do everything, and Omniscient-, and Benevolent-wishes the best for all people = no eviloIf there is evil, then one of the following above is falseoIf Omnipotent and Benevolent = God is dumb (doesn’t know how to go about doing things)oIf Omniscient and Benevolent = God is helplessoIf Omnipotent and Omniscient = God is mean (wants to hurt us)oEvil is incompatible with these propertiesoIdea/theory: If there is evil in the world, then there is a God that doesn’t have all these qualities•Could also use the “free will” defense:

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Unformatted text preview: ← ← Evil • Misery o Physical Evil – monsoons, hurricanes, etc. . • Wickedness o Moral evil – robbery, murder, etc. . ← Part 11/late 10: • Evil may be compatible with all three properties • Philo says to Cleanthes – its not enough to show compatibility, show that shape/content of the world is incompatible with God NOT having OOB… (world was created by a perfect OOB God)…Cleanthes must prove this. ← ← Inference • World OOB • Is the world different from what someone would predict from perfect God ← ← Consistency • Evil is compatible with OOB ← ← Part 12 • There is no real point of contention between theorist and atheist • Both have to grant an analogy between the operations of nature 16/09/2010 09:11:00 ← 16/09/2010 09:11:00 ←...
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